>My gut feeling is that trying to offer a Win cloud environment as payed service might be constructed as an attempt to milk/fleece the company, sometimes accompanied by sotto voce "warnings" that such an attempt/endeavor could introduce more security risks to "company secrets".
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>Less harm if offered with the alternative to build in Mono runnable on their form of Linux safely tucked inside their firewalls (if already done in C#/Win.Net), which would defuse most of the silent but poisoned background talk. Then discussion is only about cost and ROI to balance on both sides of the discussion.
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>my 0.95€ (have bite marks of such discusions)

Thanks, it would still be interesting to hear from Dmitry on the outcome of that challenge.